Oh So Busy

So I feel like I haven't posted anything in forever and even though I've been super busy doing things I haven't known what to write about. There are changes going on in the Jefferies household and they seem to occupy all my time so I've decided to finally share our news over the internet since many of you probably know our big new anyway. We are moving. Its not a big drastic move, we're only going 30 minutes north of where we are now. We are moving to a new city though and it will be quite a change. I'm really excited though and I've been really excited since we decided to make this move in January. Let me tell you our story...Jacob's parents decided to serve a mission and knew that they would either have to sell their home or find someone to rent it. Couple missions are anywhere from 18 months-2 years. At the time they were waiting to find out where they were going and when they would be leaving Jacob and I were making quite a few changes ourselves. We decided in November that we wanted to put our house on the market. Jacob's job has been a huge blessing and has provided for our family but we knew he needed something better and that our options were limited due to his lack of education. He applied for a job that would take us out of state and he was also considering going back to school (also out of state) so that he could work in a field that he enjoyed more. Both options are still on the table and we most likely won't know which path we'll take until later in the year. In the meantime we knew we wanted to sell our house now and just get that done with since we would have to sell it anyway. Jacob's parents found out they were going to be serving their mission in Zimbabwe, Africa and that they were going to be gone for 18 months and that they were leaving in February 2011. Jacob's sister and her husband were living in his parents house at the time and would continue living there till the end of May but after that they needed someone else to live there till the 18 months were over. Enter our little family who knew they didn't have much longer in their home and was in need of a place to live. After quite a lot of thinking we decided that we would move into Jacob's parents house at the end of May once his sister and her husband moved out. Our house was put on the market and we currently have an offer on it which the bank will hopefully approve. Regardless at the end of May we will be moving out to Middleton where Jacob grew up and living in his childhood home. Ever since we decided to make this move I've been quite excited about it, actually wishing it was May so we could be moving in and getting settled. Once a decision is made I have a very hard time being patient for it to finally happen. Hence the time between me meeting Jacob, getting engaged, and then getting married was only 4 months. So why have I been busy? Well Jacob's mom was very kind to me and said that I could paint and do what I wanted to make the house our home so I have been busy this past week painting. The room we are putting Savannah in was quite an undertaking. Each wall was a different color ranging from light brown, dark brown, striped, and a deep red. The ceiling, trim, built in bookcase and doors were all also painted either a light or dark brown. It took an entire gallon of primer to just take care of that room alone. Olivia's room also required the walls to be primed due to it also being a darker color. Both the girls rooms were then painted a VERY light pink and the ceilings were both painted white, along with the trim, doors, and bookcase in Savannah's room. Those two rooms alone took me 4 days and I ended up having help 1 day for a few hours which was nice because Jacob and his sister painted the trim, doors, and ceiling for me. Jacob and I really wanted to get the girls rooms done before we moved in so that it wouldn't be as big of a transition for Savannah when we moved. Their rooms will for sure be the first things we unpack as well. Savannah already knows which room is hers and always tells me how beautiful it looks and how she loves her pink room. I'll post before and after pictures once we're all done. If I end up painting anything else it will most likely be after we've moved in or during the in-between stages. Now we just have a few things left to finish the girls rooms and then I get to start packing up our house little by little. We also wanted the girls rooms painted and finished because we plan of moving boxes over now and storing them in the girls rooms so that when the big moving day comes we won't have as much work to do. So there you have it, that's what we've been up to painting and packing and more of the same. Jacob and I are both excited to move I think I'm a bit more excited then he is actually but we're also sad to be leaving the friends we've made here. We've lived in our house for almost 4 years, we brought both of our girls home to this house and have had so many wonderful memories here. We are of course though excited for the memories we'll accumulate over the next 15 months while living in Middleton. As a side note I find it amusing that we'll be living there, it seems that I keep getting further and further away from where I pictured myself being. It just goes to show that we don't always know what's best for us and that the path we end up being led on can be even better then what we imagined.